"Why does this website exist" --
what're you, kidding me? So I can talk
about myself!

(OK, not just
that...)

Don't know about you, but I often
find myself wishing I could perfectly document all of
my trips and travels, even though I know that the whole is far greater
than the sum
of its
parts, and that even the most detailed of recollections and dozens of
excellent
pictures can never fully deliver the impressions gained during a
wonderful
journey.

Yet it is precisely the
elusiveness of this undertaking --
to be able to deliver to friends and loved ones all the beauty of
travel and new experiences, to have them be able to share all that made
the
voyage enjoyable -- that sees me clicking away at the same photo
opportunities
time and time again, hoping that someone else can sense the same
delight as I
did when I was there taking that shot. And this is why the major
section of
the
website will be an attempt to capture as much of what I’ve seen, and
done, and
gone through on my six-week / 7,000 mile cross-country motorcycle
adventure.

Due to likely limits
on the amount of time I'll have each day to actually produce it --
especially considering that I’ve only recently
taught myself HTML -- the trek recap may provide only a
taste. If,
however, said taste allows you, Dear Reader, to let your mind grasp
some
of the
excitement of travel, or to recall a place you once visited that has
had some
unforgettable influence upon your own life, then maybe I will have come
closer
to succeeding than I thought possible.

It seems that there are times on the
road when you
wish you had a particular friend or loved one with you, and other times
when
you’re glad to be enjoying a particular vista by oneself. As
contradictory as
these two ideas seem, each time it’s for the same reason: because you
wish that
someone who is important enough to be on your mind could be enjoying it
as much
as you are.